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THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  WAR 

PART  I. 

THE  WAR 

"The  world  is  a  field  of  battle  where  liberty  strug- 
gles with  inertia  by  the  opposition  of  active  force." — 
Transcendental  Magic,  Levi,  31. 

"It  is  only  by  the  attractive  force  of  the  contrasts 
that  the  two  opposites — Spirit  and  Matter — can  be  ce- 
mented together  on  Earth,  and,  smelted  in  the  fire  of 
self-conscious  experience  and  suffering,  find  themselves 
wedded  in  Eternity.  This  will  reveal  the  meaning  of 
many  hitherto  incomprehensible  allegories,  foolishly  called 
'fables.'  " — The  Secret  Doctrine,  Blavatsky,  Vol.  II,  108. 

The  chaotic  conditions  now  existing  in  Eu-  wbu 
rope  have  elicited  many  questions  from  our  War* 
students,  especially  those  in  European  coun- 
tries, as  to  the  mystical  meaning  and  the  phi- 
losophical reason  for  the  apparent  necessity 
for  war,  and  why  it  is  permitted  by  a  God  of 
Love  and  Wisdom.  In  other  words,  What  is 
the  reason  for  and  the  place  of  war  in  the 
Cosmic  Scheme  or  the  Grand  Plan  of  the 
Universe?  This  lesson  is  an  attempt,  in  a 
few  paragraphs,  to  outline  asnd  make  com- 
prehensible a  stupendous  subject  whose  roots 
go  deep  into  the  beginnings  of  manifestation. 
For  the  War  is  an  expression  of  cosmic  law. 

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It  is  an  axiom  in  occult  philosophy  that 

Divine  ••til 

Realities  there  can  be  no  manifestation  without  dual- 
ity, no  shadow  without  its  Reality.  In  philos- 
ophy everything  that  manifests  descends  from 
above,  its  expression  on  earth  being  but  the 
shadow  or  reflection  of  a  Reality  in  the 
higher  realms.  uSt.  Paul  .  .  .  called 
our  World,  'the  enigmatical  mirror  of  pure 
truth/  and  St.  Gregory  of  Nazianzen  corro- 
borated Hermes  by  stating  that:  'Things 
visible  are  but  the  shadow  and  delineation  of 
things  that  we  cannot  see.'  .  .  .  'All 
that  is  on  earth,  saith  the  Lord  (Ormazd), 
is  the  shadow  of  something  that  is  in  the 
superior  spheres.'  .  .  .  It  is  an  eternal 
combination,  and  images  are  repeated  from 
the  higher  rung  of  the  Ladder  of  Being 
down  to  the  lower  .  .  .  the  lower  'mir- 
ror' disfiguring  the  image  of  the  superior 
'mirror.'  ni  And  the  Zohar  also  holds  strong- 
ly to  the  idea  that  everything  manifested  in 
the  Universe  is  the  shadow  of  the  Eternal 
Light  or  Deity,  separated  by  the  prism  of 
Matter  into  its  seven  rays,  each  with  its  dual 
principle  of  light  and  shadow.  Of  what,  then, 
is  war  on  earth  the  shadow? 


lThe  Secret  Doctrine,  Blavatsky,  Vol.  II,  280. 
4 


The  first  emanation  from  the  Absolute 
coming  into  manifestation  necessarily  had  its 
positive  and  negative  aspects  or  poles,  Spirit 
and  Substance.  From  the  very  dawn  of  the 
going  forth  of  the  Manifested  from  out  the 
bosom  of  the  Unmanifested,  the  state  of  per- 
fect equilibrium  was  disturbed  and  the 
mighty  urge  toward  union  and  a  restoration 
of  the  primordial  equilibrium  came  into  man- 
ifestation. It  is  this  urge  toward  the  resto- 
ration of  the  Projected  to  its  Source,  the  call 
of  the  Spirit  to  Matter,  the  Father  to  the 
Son,  the  Heavenly  Man  to  the  human,  the 
Higher  Self  to  the  lower  personality,  that  is 
the  cause  back  of  all  war,  all  desire,  hence 
back  of  all  evolution.  For  only  in  a  union 
with  its  Cause  can  the  Cycle  of  Necessity  be 
ended,  the  desire  be  satisfied  and  become  one 
with  the  Will  of  the  Father,  the  War  ended 
and  the  evolution  be  completed. 

But  the  impelling  Force  which  caused  the 
Outgoing  or  downward  arc  of  the  projection 
into  Manifestation  resists  the  Indrawing 
power  or  upward  arc  of  Realization  which 
is  necessary  to  complete  the  At-one-ment. 
This  resistance  to  the  uplifting,  dematerial- 
izing  and  indrawing  force  constitutes  and  is 
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the  basic  principle  back  of  all  reflections  or 
inertia  phases  of  the  War.  In  the  physical  world  this 
resistance  is  expressed  as  the  war  between 
Matter  Spirit  and  Matter;  the  resistance  due  to  the 
density  and  inertia  of  Matter  to  the  unfold- 
ment  and  expression  of  the  Spirit  which,  with 
the  descent  of  the  Light,  clothed  itself  in 
Matter  that  it  might  evolve  up  through  it 
and  by  so  doing  spiritualize  it  and  return  it 
to  its  primordial  state.  It  is  the  inability  of 
the  lower  vibrations  of  Matter  to  respond  to 
the  higher  vibrations  of  Spirit  until,  through 
the  subliming  and  etherializing  process  which 
results  from  the  friction  thus  engendered, 
Matter  becomes  finer  and  more  plastic  and 
thus  more  responsive  to  the  expressions  of 
Spirit.  Hence  in  all  cosmogonies,  "  'There 
were  many  Wars,'  all  referring  to  the  strug- 
gles of  adjustment,  spiritual,  cosmical  and 
astronomical,  but  chiefly  to  the  mysteries  of 
the  evolution  of  man,  as  he  is  now."2  The 
point  we  wish  to  emphasize  is  that  these 
"wars"  are  all  necessary  factors  in  the  ad- 
justment which  must  occur  ere  the  close  of 
any  and  every  cycle. 

"There  are  accounts  of  three  distinct  Wars 


2S.  D.,  Vol.  I,  215. 


to  be  traced  in  almost  every  cosmogony.  The 
first  War  happened  in  the  night  of  time,  be-  War 
tween  the  Gods  and  the  (A) -suras,  and  £eoyc 
lasted  for  a  period  of  one  Divine  Year."3 
Thus  the  War  began  with  the  "War  in 
Heaven"  or  the  resistance  of  certain  expres- 
sions of  the  Godhead  to  carrying  out  the 
Divine  Will;  again  the  resistance  of  the  lower 
to  the  higher  Will.  This  is  far  more  than 
merely  an  expression  of  the  Sun-Myth  or  the 
personification  of  the  forces  of  nature,  the 
war  between  Light  and  Darkness.  For  the 
various  versions  of  the  Sun-Myth  are  but  al- 
legories expressing  the  cosmic  principle  of 
the  resistance  of  Matter  to  the  expression  of 
Spirit,  whether  it  be  represented  by  the  Chris- 
tian Michael,  the  Angel  of  the  Sun,  slaying 
the  Apocalyptic  Dragon;  Horus,  the  Egyp- 
tian Sun-god,  slaying  Typhon,  the  Dragon 
Apophis;  Hercules  strangling  the  Python  in 
his  cradle  or  uPhoibos-Apollo,  the  Greek 
Helios,  the  Sun,  'the  Light  and  Life  of  the 
World'  .  .  .  who  at  the  moment  of  his 
birth  asks  for  his  bow  to  kill  Python,  the 
Demon  Dragon."  They  all  symbolize  the 
eternal  struggle  for  light,  progress  and  evo- 

3Ibid,   Vol.   I,   451.     A   Divine  Year  is   360  times  a   Day  of 
Brahm  (4,320,000,000  years). 

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lution  which  constitutes  the  war  between  the 
Light  of  Wisdom  and  the  Darkness  of  Ignor- 
ance; between  unselfishness  and  selfishness; 
the  good  of  the  whole  and  the  ambitions  of 
the  few;  between  civilization  and  barbarism; 
between  the  Angel  of  Peace  and  the  Dragon 
of  Material  Force  embodied  in  Militarism; 
between  Right  and  might,  etc. 

The  second  great  phase  of  the  War,  as 
reflected  in  humanity,  occurred  at  the  creation 
of  man,  when  the  resistance  set  up  by  the  de- 
sires of  the  lower  to  the  Will  of  the  Higher 
was  exemplified  in  the  struggle  which  took 
place  between  the  Lunar  and  Solar  Fathers. 
Occult  philosophy  teaches  that  the  physical 
body  or  animal  man  was  projected  as  a 
"shadow"  or  was  "created"  by  the  Hier- 
archy of  the  Lunar  Fathers.4  But  the 
"man"  so  created  was  but  a  human  animal 
without  intellect  or  the  spark  of  self-con- 
sciousness; he  had  not  yet  become  "a  living 
soul."  As  soon  as  the  human  animal  had 
been  perfected  the  Hierarchy  of  the  Solar 
Fathers — called  "Sons  of  Mind" — projected 
into  that  animal  form  a  "Ray"  of  themselves 
which  became  the  Divine  Spark, .the  individ- 

*For  The  Origin  of  Man,  see  chapter  xvii  in  The  Voice  of 
Isis,  Curtiss. 

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ual,  immortal  Spiritual  Ego  or,  as  the  Bible 
puts  it,  they:  "Breathed  into  his  nostrils  the  ^8in 
Breath  of  Life  (breath  always  being  a  sym-  Suffer. 
bol  of  Spirit)  ;  and  (only  then)  man  became  rn* 
a  living  (immortal)  Soul."5  Man  was  thus 
the  product  of  two  distinct  lines  of  creative 
forces,  a  semi-terrestrial  and  a  Divine;  just 
as  a  mother  brings  forth  (creates)  the  terres- 
trial body  of  her  child,  yet  has  nothing  to 
do  with  making  it  ua  living  Soul."  With  the 
incarnating  of  the  Spirit  and  the  lighting  of 
the  spark  of  self-consciousness  in  man  this 
second  phase  of  the  War  began,  i.  e.y  the  ef- 
fort of  the  spiritual  Solar  Fathers,  through 
the  incarnated  Ray  or  Real  Man,  to  control 
and  guide  the  animal  man,  to  the  end  that  he 
might  respond  to  the  higher  law  or  Divine 
Will.  The  control  of  the  Lunar  Fathers  had 
been  through  instinct  and  did  not  admit  of 
the  power  of  choice,  while  the  control  of  the 
Solar  Fathers  was  and  is  through  the  free- 
will choice  of  man,  even  though  through  his 
refusal  to  choose  the  higher  guidance  he  cre- 
ates the  suffering  by  which  he  learns  the  wis- 
dom of  that  choice.  The  struggle  was  brought 
about,  therefore,  by  the  resistance  offered  by 

^Genesis  11,  7. 


the  animal  instincts  and  the  desires  of  the 
senses  to  voluntarily  submitting  to  the  uplift- 
ing and  spiritualizing  control  of  the  Divine 
Will  of  the  Real  Man  or  Father-in-heaven. 
Origin  In  the  mental  world  the  War  manifests 
as  the  resistance  of  the  Intellect  to  the 
promptings  of  Intuition;  the  temporary  re- 
fusal of  the  Head  to  obey  the  promptings  of 
the  Heart.  Until  the  self-conscious  stage  of 
man  was  reached  the  resistance  was  more  or 
less  passive  or  the  resistance  of  inertia,  but 
with  the  dawn  of  free-will  and  the  power  of 
choice  the  resistance  became  active  and  the 
element  of  antagonism  was  added  to  the 
inertia.  Although  the  light  of  self-conscious- 
ness and  the  development  of  the  Intellect  was 
the  direct  result  of  the  incarnating  Spirit 
gradually  evolving  an  adequate  instrument  by 
means  of  which  it  could  relate  itself  in  con- 
ciousness  to  the  conditions  of  material  mani- 
festation and  through  which  it  could  express 
itself  in  such  conditions,  as  soon  as  the  spark 
of  Divine  Mind  burst  into  the  flame  of  self- 
consciousness,  the  human  animal  thus  awak- 
ened to  itself — but  as  yet  unable  to  recognize 
its  Divine  Parent — placed  Intellect  upon  the 
throne  as  the  source  of  its  highest  guidance. 
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St.  Paul  refers  to  this  phase  of  the  War 
when  he  says:  "Whenl  would  do  good  (i.e.,  officc 
follow  the  Intuitions  from  the  Higher  Self),  of  the 
behold  evil  (or  the  desires  of  the  lower  man)  /nte//e' 
is  present  with  me."  It  is  the  War  between 
Higher  and  Lower  Manas  or  the  resistance 
of  the  human  or  intellectual  consciousness  to 
the  Illumination  and  guidance  of  the  Divine. 
And  this  phase  of  the  War  will  continue  in 
man  until,  by  the  subliming  and  spiritualizing 
process  due  to  the  friction  ( suffering)  en- 
gendered, the  Intellect  will  admit  that  it  is 
but  the  creature  and  instrument,  and  must 
become  the  willing  servant,  of  the  Real  Man 
or  Higher  Self,  to  translate  the  Inspiration 
of  the  Spirit  into  terms  of  human  conscious- 
ness which  shall  enable  the  human  personal- 
ity consciously  to  follow  the  Divine  Guid- 
ance. Of  all  creatures  man  alone  has  within 
him  both  the  Higher  Mind — the  embodied 
Ray  from  the  Divine  Mind — and  also  the 
Lower  Mind  which  is  synthesized  by  the  ani- 
mal soul  and  has  its  highest  expression 
through  Intellect.  Hence  man  is  the  Arbitra- 
tor, for  he  can  reach  up  and  comprehend 
God  and  also  reach  down  into  the  animal 
consciousness  and  comprehend  the  resistance 
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of  matter  and  the  views  and  arguments  of  the 
Lower  Mind. 

By  the  creative  power  of  his  thought  he 
cw*e  leaves  the  impress  of  his  stage  of  evolution 
upon  all  the  lower  kingdoms.  For  just  as 
the  War  in  heaven  was  reflected  in  man,  so 
has  man  reflected  the  War  that  is  going  on 
within  himself,  upon  the  lower  kingdoms. 
So  it  is  through  man,  who  has  stamped  the 
impress  of  his  imperfections — the  incomplete 
stage  of  his  spiritual  unfoldment — upon  ani- 
mal, vegetable  and  mineral  as  antagonism, 
hatred,  disease  and  death,  that  the  curse  has 
been  fulfilled:  uCursed  is  the  ground  for 
thy  sake,  .  .  .  thorns  also  and  thistles 
shall  it  bring  forth  to  thee ;  ...  in  the 
sweat  of  thy  face  shalt  thou  eat  bread,  till 
thou  return  unto  the  ground  (his  Source)  ; 
for  out  of  it  wast  thou  taken;  for  dust  thou 
art  and  unto  dust  shalt  thou  return."6  Look- 
ing at  the  War  as  symbolized  by  this  so- 
called  curse,  with  the  eye  of  Spirit  we  see 
that  this  curse  contains  a  prophecy  of  the  end 
of  the  War,  i.  e.y  the  ultimate  victory  of  the 
Spiritual  over  the  mere  animal  man.  Only 
that  which  is  made  of  cosmic  dust  or  Matter 


^Genesis  II,  7. 

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can  be  cursed  by  man's  disobedience  to  the  ^ 
Divine  Will.  In  other  words  only  that  which  'Promise 
man  received  from  his  Lunar  ancestors — his 
physical,  astral  and  desire  bodies — can  be 
said  to  be  made  of  "dust"  or  the  unredeemed 
matter  of  former  world-periods7  which 
formed  the  chaos  into  which  the  spiritual 
Light  descended  at  the  beginning  of  this  cos- 
mic Day  of  Evolution.  Hence  the  so-called 
curse  may  be  turned  into  a  blessing,  since  it 
assures  us  that  ultimately  all  that  is  dust 
(matter)  will  be  returned  to  its  Source  at  the 
end  of  the  War,  but  with  the  results  of 
man's  higher  spiritual  understanding  of  the 
great  mystery  of  transmutation  or  redemp- 
tion impressed  upon  it.  The  curse  also  tells 
us  in  a  few  cryptic  words  that  the  cause  of 
the  War  is  the  effort  of  Spirit  to  redeem 
(literally  "buy  back"  or  return  to  its  Source) 
Matter. 

Perhaps  the  position  of  man  in  this  great 
struggle  can  be  better  comprehended  if  we 
consider  an  earthly  simile.  In  an  earthly 
war  only  one  who  has  had  experience  on  both 
sides  or  who  is  so  gifted  that  he  can  enter 
fully  and  understandingly  into  the  point  of 


7See  The  Voice  of  Isis,  Curtiss,  Chapter  XXIV. 
13 


jttan  v*ew  °^  both  combatants,  is  fitted  to  become 
an  Arbitrator.  In  the  mighty  war  between 

Arbara.  Spirit  and  Matter  man  is  such  an  Arbitra- 
tor; for  he  can,  if  he  will,  reach  up  into  the 
Spiritual  Consciousness  and  comprehend  the 
Divine  Plan  of  Redemption,  the  power  of 
the  Spiritual  Consciousness  to  uplift  the  ani- 
mal consciousness;  can  grasp  the  reality  of 
the  transmuting  power  of  Divine  Love,  and 
understand  that  only  through  the  reign  of 
the  Heart  can  there  be  peace;  for  the  Intel- 
lect, when  its  dominance  is  insisted  upon,  can 
only  prolong  the  War.  He  can  also  make 
his  Intellect  a  powerful  servant  which  can 
descend  into  the  most  microscopic  details  of 
Matter  and  understand  the  point  of  view  and 
the  cause  for  which  the  lower  man  fights. 
Through  the  Light  of  Intuition  he  can  ascend 
into  the  higher  realms  and  grasp  the  macro- 
cosmic  details  of  the  Grand  Plan  and  realize 
that  through  Intellect  alone  he  can  never  cor- 
relate with  the  Spirit  of  that  which  the  In- 
tellect has  discovered.  Thus  from  his  posi- 
tion as  Arbitrator  he  can  not  only  look  down 
into  the  suffering,  misery  and  crime  created 
by  the  resistance  of  the  selfish  animal  desires, 
but  can  also  see  how  only  through  the  spirit 

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of  Love  and  Harmony  and  through  Obe- 
dience  to  the  guidance  of  the  Spirit  can  man  Remol 
and  nature  be  redeemed  and  the  curse  be  re- 
moved. The  victories  of  the  lower  mind  are 
precipitated  in  its  home-world,  the  physical 
consciousness,  as  mental  and  emotional 
storms,  while  the  victories  of  the  Higher 
Mind  are  accumulated  in  its  home-world  as 
so  much  added  power  of  the  Spirit  to  mani- 
fest on  earth  both  for  the  individual,  the 
Race  and  the  planet 

The  War  between  the  Higher  and  Lower 
Selves  therefore  began  when  the  child  of  the 
Lunar  Fathers  became  also  the  child  of  the 
Solar  Fathers.  Hence  we  find  throughout 
all  myth  and  allegory  the  frequent  reference 
to  wars  between  the  Sun-gods  and  the  Moon- 
gods  or  between  the  Priests  of  the  Sun  and 
the  Priests  of  the  Moon.  And  in  the  early 
races,  when  the  Sun-gods  uwalked  and  talked 
with  men,"  that  is,  when  through  their  Divine 
Incarnations  as  great  Spiritual  Teachers,  the 
Sun-gods  taught  the  intellectually  infant  hu- 
manity the  principles  of  all  arts,  sciences  and 
philosophies — many  of  which  are  today  tem- 
porarily lost  because  of  the  present  wave  of 
materialism — the  great  mass  of  the  Race  was 
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unable  to  respond  to  that  higher  guidance 
except  for  a  short  time,  and  there  arose  a 
division  into  two  groups,  the  smaller  of 
which  still  followed  the  Divine  Teachers, 
and  the  larger  which  followed  the  call  of 
sense  gratification  and  selfishness  represented 
by  the  Priests  of  the  Moon-god.  As  Eliphas 
Levi  says:  uMen  grew  weary  of  the  light, 
took  refuge  in  the  shadow  of  bodily  sub- 
stance ;  the  dream  of  the  void,  which  is  filled 
by  God,  soon  appeared  to  be  greater  than 
God  himself  in  their  eyes  and  thus  Hell  was 
created." 

The  third  great  phase  of  the  War  there- 
Havana  fore  manifested  on  earth  in  the  terrible  strug- 
gle which  took  place  at  the  close  of  the 
Fourth  or  Atlantean  Race  between  Rama, 
the  first  of  the  Divine  Dynasty  or  Solar  Kings 
of  the  early  Aryan  Race,  and  Ravana,  the 
leader  of  the  scorcery-working  Atlanteans. 
As  The  Secret  Doctrine  tells  us8:  "With  the 
Fifth,  our  own  Race,  the  Lunar-solar  wor- 
ship divided  the  nations  into  distinct,  antago- 
nistic camps.  It  led  to  the  events  described 
eons  later  in  the  Mahabharatan  War."9 
Whether  we  take  this  in  its  historical  aspect 

*S.  D.,  Vol.  I,  426. 

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or  as  a  legendary  reference  to  the  escape  of 
the  Aryans  from  Atlantis ;  as  Moses  leading  1 ' 
the  Children  of  Israel  out  of  Egypt;  as  the  w*raoh 
escape  of  the  higher  faculties  from  the  bond- 
age of  the  senses,  or  purely  as  an  allegorical 
expression  of  the  Sun-Myth,  in  each  instance 
we  have  a  leader  who  represents  the  Divine 
Dynasty  or  Light,  Progress  and  Evolution — 
the  upward  and  indrawing  power  which  is  the 
cause  of  all  evolution,  civilization,  progress 
— and  who  always  leads  his  followers  in  tri- 
umph over  the  hosts  of  opposition,  which  are 
inevitably  swallowed  up  in  the  sea.  In  the 
Bible  account  this  leader  is  called  Moses,  the 
Law-giver,  while  in  the  individual  those  fac- 
ulties which  choose  to  follow  the  Divine  Law 
become  the  uchosen  people."  By  following 
the  Divine  Guidance  they  are  led  out  of  the 
bondage  of  the  senses  and  escape  from  the 
power  of  King  Desire,10  represented  by 
Pharaoh.  But  King  Desire  is  loath  to  let 
them  escape  him  and  pursues  after  them, 

9"This  served  as  a  prototype  ...  for  the  Western  na- 
tions to  build  their  War  of  the  Titans  upon.  .  .  .  The  War 
of  the  Titans  is  but  a  legendary  and  deified  copy  of  the  real  war 
that  took  place.  .  .  .  It  is  the  record  of  the  terrible  strife 
between  the  'Sons  of  God*  and  the  'Sons  of  Shadow*  of  the 
Fourth  and  Fifth  Races.  It  is  on  these  two  events  .  .  . 
that  every  subsequent  national  tradition  on  the  subject  has  been 
.-milt."— S.  £>.,  Vol.  II,  525. 

10See  lesson  on  King  Desire,  Curtiss.     Sent  free  on  request. 

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who  only  to  be  swallowed  up  in  the  waters  o: 
Mu3t  the  Great  Sea,  even  as  the  hosts  o: 
Ravana  were  swallowed  up  by  the  sinking  o: 
Atlantis.  Therefore  in  all  wars,  on  even 
plane  of  manifestation,  the  forces  which  rep 
resent  the  Sun-god;  which  fight  for  progress 
enlightenment,  civilization,  the  Brotherhooc 
of  Man  and  of  Nations;  which  truly  figh 
on  the  side  of  St.  George  against  the  Dragon 
must  ultimately  win,  for  they  become  chan 
nels  through  which  the  constructive,  uplift 
ing  and  spiritualizing  currents  of  the  Cosmi< 
Forces  can  find  expression  and  manifest  or 
earth. 

As  we  have  already  said,  before  any  cycl< 
can  close  and  the  circle  return  to  its  primor 
dial  state  of  equilibrium,  everything  that  per 
sistently  stands  in  the  way  and  prevents  th< 
manifestation  of  Divine  Will,  or  the  Idea 
of  that  particular  cycle;  everything  that  re 
sists  the  indrawal  and  union;  that  refuses  t( 
respond  to  the  higher  vibration  or  key-not< 
of  that  cycle,  in  other  words  which  refuse: 
to  be  redeemed,  must  be  wiped  out  of  th< 
path  of  that  closing  cycle  and  make  way  fo] 
the  manifestation  of  the  new.  Therefon 
there  must  be  a  great  adjustment  at  the  clos< 
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of  every  cycle,  whether  it  be  of  Race,  sub- 
race,  nation  or  individual.  If  the  cycle  is  suf-  QH  it 
ficiently  advanced  to  permit  the  adjustment  0/ 
to  be  made  by  responding  to  the  Law  of  **' 
Harmony  expressed  through  Love,  Toler- 
ance, Brotherhood  and  Unselfishness,  wheth- 
er of  individuals,  nations  or  Races,  then 
there  need  be  no  war,  for  the  resistance  has 
been  overcome.  But  if  the  resistance  to  the 
Divine  has  built  up  such  a  mass  of  inharmony 
(evil)  that  the  spiritual  force  of  that  cycle 
is  not  sufficient  to  redeem  it,  then  the  adjust- 
ment must  come  as  a  physical  precipitation  of 
the  stored  up  inharmony,  through  the  avenue 
of  physical  conflict  or  war;  just  as  a  cloud 
which  is  so  saturated  with  moisture  that  the 
sun  cannot  absorb  (redeem)  it  must  be  preci- 
pitated as  rain,  hail  or  snow  ere  the  light  of 
the  sun  can  manifest  on  earth. 

In  the  physical  body  the  War  is  expressed 
through  certain  storms  of  bodily  inharmony, 
illness  or  disaster  which  sweep  over  those 
who  are  endeavoring  to  follow  the  Higher 
Guidance  and  striving  to  "live  the  life." 
When  the  ideal  of  a  higher  life  is  set  up  by 
the  consciousness,  it  sounds  a  new  and  higher 
key-note  throughout  the  body.  Those  atoms 
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The  which  can  respond  answer  the  call  and  follow 
War  the  new  Law-giver  and  are  led  out  of  bond- 
"  j*  age  into  the  freedom  of  a  new  cycle  or  expres- 
sion of  Life.  While  in  those  atoms  which 
belong  wholly  to  the  old  dispensation,  which 
have  fulfilled  their  mission  and  are  not  suf- 
ficiently evolved  to  take  on  the  higher  vibra- 
tion and  enter  the  new  cycle,  the  resistance 
to  the  higher  call  is  so  great  that  it  brings 
on  the  War  in  which  they  are  vanquished 
and  sloughed  out  of  the  body  through  a 
cleansing  cataclysm  of  illness  which,  while  it 
leaves  the  body  temporarily  devastated  and 
weak,  has  nevertheless  cleared  the  field  of 
opposition  and  prepared  for  the  manifesta- 
tion of  a  higher  expression  of  Life. 

Strife  and  war  among  nations  are  simply 
evidences  of  inharmony  and  sickness  in  the 
body  of  humanity;  an  effort  of  the  body  pol- 
itic to  slough  out  those  atoms  which  refuse 
to  respond  to  the  higher  key-note  of  civiliza- 
tion that  is  struck  by  the  more  advanced  con- 
ceptions of  Harmony,  Brotherhood  and  Co- 
operation among  nations.11  War  may  be 


HThe  atoms  thus  sloughed   out   are   not  the   individual   lives 
sacrificed  in  war,  but  are  the  false  ideals  of  selfish  isolation  and 

is  a 

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individual  aggrandizement  regardless  of  others,  that  obstruct  th< 
upward  evolution  of  humanity  as  a  whole. 


likened  to  the  cruel  lancet  of  the  surgeon 
which  opens  a  festering  boil.  It  causes  tem-y/Wmate 
porary  suffering  and  bloodshed,  but  it  per- 
mits  the  escape  of  the  mass  of  inharmony 
and  corruption  which,  if  retained,  would 
poison  the  entire  body.  And  no  real  healing 
can  take  place  until  the  focus  of  infection  is 
utterly  wiped  out. 

In  the  daily  battles  for  poise,  control  and 
harmony  which  the  individual  begins  con- 
sciously to  fight  as  soon  as  he  endeavors  to 
follow  a  higher  ideal,  he  may  possibly  find 
himself  worsted  in  some  of  the  skirmishes  of 
the  early  stages,  and  evil  and  inharmony  may 
accumulate  until  it  can  no  longer  be  held 
back  and  must  find  physical  expression — for 
it  is  a  well  known  principle  of  psychology 
that  thoughts  express  themselves  through 
their  creators  in  terms  of  action,  unless  coun- 
teracted by  opposite  thoughts  of  greater 
power — but  no  matter  how  many  skirmishes 
are  lost,  if  he  persistently  follows  the  Light 
of  his  highest  Ideal,  be  it  ever  so  primitive  to 
others,  it  will  lead  him  step  by  step  to  ulti- 
mate victory.  If  he  finds  himself  facing  such 
an  outbreak,  it  means  that  he  has  created 
more  inharmony  or  evil  than  his  present  stage 
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of  spiritual  unfoldment  is  able  to  transmute, 
hence  the  precipitation. 

In  the  mental  world  the  outlet  will  be 
found  through  the  emotions.  The  expres- 
Emotion  sion  of  these  emotions  becomes  a  storm  which 
sweeps  away  the  control  of  those  who  open 
the  door  of  their  minds  through  irritation, 
impatience,  anger,  jealousy,  envy,  animal  de- 
sires, etc.,  and  leaves  them  devastated,  yet 
relieved  and  ready,  in  the  next  time  of  trial, 
for  an  encounter  which  shall  be  more  suc- 
cessful, in  proportion  to  the  effort  made  to 
conquer  in  the  past.  This,  however,  should 
not  be  made  an  excuse  for  giving  way  to  emo- 
tional excitement  of  any  kind,  for  a  strong 
effort  should  always  be  made  for  control  and 
peace,  i.  e.y  to  transmute  inharmony  and  turn 
its  perverted  forces  into  constructive  and  use- 
ful channels.  But  if  a  storm  should  gather 
and  burst,  be  ready  to  set  a  higher  standard 
and  a  greater  degree  of  achievement  in  the 
period  of  reconstruction. 

The  War  is  also  reflected  in  the  terrible 
struggles  through  which  the  candidate  for 
Mastery  must  pass  during  his  Initiation;  the 
struggle  of  The  Christ  within  to  slay  the 
dragon  of  self;  the  Guardian  Angel  to  slay 
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I 

the  Dweller  on  the  Threshold.     It  is  also 
exemplified  in  the  resistance  of  humanity  to  HQS 
new  or  higher  spiritual  teachings;  the  misun- /?e^/on 
derstanding,    misrepresentation,    condemna- 
tion, slander,  persecution,  final  crucifixion  but 
ultimate  triumph,  through  which  every  Light- 
bearer  who  comes  to  humanity  has  to  pass. 

From  the  principles  outlined  above  it  will 
be  seen  that  the  wars  among  nations  which 
make  for  enlightenment,  civilization,  free- 
dom, the  independence  of  each  nation  and 
the  general  advance  of  mankind,  are  not  evi- 
dences of  the  failure  of  civilization  or  the 
failure  of  the  particular  religion  which  pre- 
vails at  the  time.  They  are  but  skirmishes 
in  the  War;  expressions  of  the  Cosmic  Law 
of  adjustment  called  Karma,  by  which  that 
which  is  created  by  mankind  must  be  faced 
and  redeemed;  that  which  is  sown  must  be 
reaped.  There  must  be  periodic  manifesta- 
tions of  the  War  as  long  as  Matter  resists 
Spirit;  as  long  as  barbarism  resists  civiliza- 
tion; civilization  resists  the  Brotherhood  of 
Nations;  industry  resists  co-operation;  mate- 
rialism resists  altriusm  and  idealism,  in  short, 
as  long  as  any  phase  of  manifestation  resists 
the  call  of  the  Divine.  But  the  conflicts  should 
23 


grow  fewer  and  fewer  and  the  periods  of 
peace  be  more  and  more  prolonged  in  each 
succeeding  upward  cycle,  until  the  Golden 
Age  of  the  Seventh  Great  Race  of  man12  is 
reached;  until  we  return  again  to  the  rule  of 
the  Divine  Kings — the  uSons  of  God"  as  the 
Bible  calls  them — among  men,  not  as  parents 
ruling  over  children,  as  in  the  beginning,  but 
as  Elder  Brothers  or  Senior  Partners  whose 
experience  and  wisdom  we  gladly  accept  and 
follow. 

The  great  lesson  to  be  learned  from  the 
War  is  that  it  is  a  very  real  and  personal 
issue  with  each  awakened  Soul  who  has 
awakened  to  the  call  of  the  Divine  and 
donned  the  armour  of  The  Christ  and  be- 
come a  Soldier  of  the  Cross.  Each  Soul  is 
judged  at  the  close  of  each  life-cycle  by  the 
sum  total  of  how  much  it  has  overcome,  how 
much  of  the  lower  self  it  has  illumined  by  the 
higher  spiritual  consciousness.  And  strange 
as  it  may  seem  to  some,  evolution  in  man  is 
gauged  by  how  successfully  he  has  fulfilled 
his  mission  as  Arbitrator  between  Spirit  and 
matter,  between  the  higher  kingdoms  and 
the  lower,  giving  to  each  its  rightful  place 

12See  The  Voice  of  Isis,  Curtiss,  Chapter  XV. 

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while  he  himself  stands  calm  and  unmoved 
in  the  midst  of  the  War,  confidently  know- 
ing that  back  of  all  the  turmoil,  inharmony 
and  strife  are  uthe  everlasting  arms"  of  Di- 
vine Love  and  that  the  true  Peace  is  ever  hov- 
ering, like  the  Breath  of  God,  over  the  seem- 
ing chaos. 

It  is   man,   therefore,   responding  of  his 
own  free-will  to  the  guidance  of  the  Divine,  Man 
who  must  bring  about  uPeace  on  earth,  good  <$l/ee 
will  toward  men,"  and  not  the  dictates  of  an  er 
arbitrary  Being  who  imposes  his  Will  upon 
a  helpless  humanity.    Hence  there  is  not  a 
single  man  or  woman  who  cannot  be  an  ac- 
tive factor  in  bringing  the  Golden  Age  of 
Love,    Peace,    Harmony    and    Brotherhood 
into  manifestation  the  sooner,  through  the 
controlling  of  thoughts,  words  and  emotions, 
and  by  overcoming  his  or  her  resistance,  and 
responding  more  and  more  understandingly 
and  gladly,  to  the  upward  urge  of  the  Divine. 

Written  September  30,   1914. 


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THE  PHILOSOPHY  OF  WAR 

PART  II. 

THE  BATTLE  OF  ARMAGEDDON 

"To  whom  shall  I  speak,  and  give  warning,  that  they 

may   hear?    behold,    their   ear   is   uncircumcised,    and   they 

cannot  harken:  behold  the  word  of  the  L/ord  is  unto  them 

•  a  reproach;  they  have  no  delight  in  it." — Jeremiah,  VI,  10. 

"And  I  saw  three  unclean  spirits  like  frogs  come  out 
of  the  mouth  of  the  dragon,  and  out  of  the  mouth  of  the 
beast,  and  out  of  the  mouth  of  the  false  prophet.  For 
they  are  the  spirits  of  devils,  working  miracles,  which  go 
forth  unto  the  kings  of  the  whole  earth  and  of  the  whole 
world,  to  gather  them  to  the  battle  of  that  great  day  of 
God  Almighty.  .  .  .  And  he  gathered  them  together 
into  a  place  called  in  the  Hebrew  tongue  Armageddon." — 
Revelation,  XVI,  13-16. 

The  literal  meaning  of  Armageddon  is 
uon  the  heights"  or  uon  high/'  and  in  this 
sense  it  is  used  to  designate  the  invisible  re- 
alms of  the  astral-plane.  The  hosts  which 
are  gathered  to  this  great  battle  are  the  hosts 
of  the  accumulated  thought-forms  of  lust, 
greed,  envy,  hate,  selfishness  and  unbrother- 
liness  engendered  by  the  wrong  thinking  of 
humanity  from  the  beginning,  as  well  as  the 
results  of  their  evil  words  and  deeds,  all  of 
26 


which  are  ever  seeking  expression  through 
their  creators.  Jeremiah  specifically  refers  to 
these  forces  as  causes  when  he  says:  uHear, 
O  earth :  behold,  I  will  bring  evil  upon  this 
people,  even  the  fruit  of  their  thoughts,  be- 
cause they  have  not  hearkened  unto  my 
words,  nor  my  law,  but  rejected  it."1  During 
this  battle  all  the  stored  up  evil  must  have  a 
focus  through  which  it  can  pour  itself  out 
upon  the  lowest  or  physical-plane  where  its 
precipitation  will  end  the  cycle  of  its  mani- 
festation, adjust  the  Karma  and  permit  the 
good  aspect  of  the  forces  involved  to  be  ex- 
tracted, just  as  ore  is  crushed  or  melted  that 
the  gold  may  be  extracted.  Hence,  while 
many  are  referring  to  the  present  European 
conflict  as  Armageddon,  the  meaning  of  the 
word  shows  that  the  present  war  is  but  one 
reflection  or  outpouring  on  earth  of  the  real 
battle  that  has  been  raging  in  the  higher 
realms. 

These  forces  have  accumulated  because, 
during  the  childhood  of  the  Race  the  Mas- 
ters of  Wisdom  and  the  Rulers  of  the  sub- 
races  have  held  them  back  until  the  Race 
grew  strong  enough  to  bear  them  upon  its 

^Jeremiah,  VI,  19. 

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own  shoulders ;  grew  up  as  it  were.  But  the 
Race  has  now  grown  up.  The  cycle  is  closing 
and  the  time  for  the  adjustment  is  at  hand. 
"Therefore  I  am  full  of  the  fury  of  the  Lord 
(Law)  ;  I  am  weary  with  holding  in:  I  will 
pour  it  out  upon  the  children  abroad,  and 
upon  the  assembly  of  young  men  together."2 
The  working  out  and  adjustment  of  these 
karmic  forces  must  take  place  at  the  close  of 
each  Race,  and  in  a  lesser  degree  at  the  close 
of  each  sub-race.  This  adjustment  precipi- 
tates the  great  race  wars  which  are  followed 
by  the  cataclysms  which  mark  the  close  of 
sub-races  and  Races;  for  every  particle  of 
matter  composing  the  Race-continents,  as 
well  as  every  particle  in  the  body  of  individ- 
ual man,  must  have  its  own  individual  bal- 
ancing, purification,  readjustment  and  ulti- 
mate redemption. 

The  last  great  Armageddon  occurred  just 
before  the  sinking  of  the  continent  of  Atlan- 
tis, at  the  close  of  the  cycle  of  the  Fourth 
Great  Race  (Atlantean).  "This  hints  at  the 
struggle  between  the  'Sons  of  God'  and  the 
Sons  of  the  Dark  Wisdom — our  forefathers; 
or  the  Atlantean  and  the  Aryan  Adepts.  The 

nm,  vi,  11. 

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whole  history  of  that  period  is  allegorized  in  DMn 
the  Ramayana  which  is  the  mystic  narrative  #«'« 
in  epic  form  of  the  struggle  between  Rama 
- — the  first  king  of  the  Divine  Dynasty  of  the 
early  Aryans- — and  Ravana,  the  symbolic  per- 
sonification of  the  Atlantean  (Lanka)  Race. 
The  former  were  the  incarnations  of  the 
Solar  Gods;  the  latter,  of  the  Lunar  Devas. 
This  was  the  great  battle  between  Good  and 
Evil,  between  White  and  Black  Magic,  for 
the  supremacy  of  the  divine  forces  over  the 
lower  terrestrial,  or  cosmic  powers."3  The 
sinking  of  the  continent  of  Atlantis  which 
followed  was  the  balancing  of  the  accounts 
of  the  entire  Fourth  Race.  It  was  a  neces- 
sary preparation  (through  the  purifying  ac- 
tion of  the  salt  water)  of  the  continent  for  a 
future  Race.  The  survivors,  those  who  were 
sufficiently  spiritualized,  awakened  and  obe- 
dient to  follow  their  Divine  Rulers,  were 
picked  out,  separated  and  trained  by  the 
Masters  long  before  the  sinking  of  the  con- 
tinent, and  became  the  seed  of  the  present 
Fifth  (Aryan)  Great  Race,  just  as  some  are 
now  being  chosen  and  trained  for  a  similar 
function. 


3The  Secret  Doctrine    Blavatsky,  Vol.  II,  520. 

29 


Ere  this  present  Fifth  Race  ends — and  we 
are  now  just  entering  upon  its  sixth  sub-race4 
.  — a  s;m;iar  adjustment  of  its  Race  Karma 
must  take  place.  The  great  European  war 
now  raging  offers  a  focal  point  through  which 
the  Karma  of  the  fifth  sub-race  of  the  Aryans 
can  be  precipitated  on  the  physical-plane  and 
adjusted.  Europe  is  the  focal  point  because  it 
was  in  Europe  that  the  greater  part  of  that 
Karma  was  engendered,  i.e.,  through  the 
many  bitter  political  wars  which  drenched  its 
soil  in  blood;  through  the  sectarian  wars  car- 
ried on  in  the  name  of  the  Church,  but  which 
perverted  religion  and  made  priest-craft  a 
curse;  and  through  the  intolerance,  selfish- 
ness, mental  and  spiritual  blindness  of  the  re- 
ligious leaders  which  manifesetd  in  the  men- 
tal war  which  was  finally  culminated  in  the 
most  inhuman  persecutions  the  civilizied 
world  has  ever  known — the  Inquisition.  The 
present  war  is  the  beginning  of  the  period 
which  will  mark  the  close  of  the  Fifth  Great 
Race.  While  this  present  conflict  seems 
wholly  evil,  it  is  not  entirely  so  for  the  Race; 
for  not  only  will  the  old  karmic  debts  be  ad- 
justed and  thus  allow  the  contending  nations 
to  enter  into  a  federation  in  which  the  inde- 

4See  The  Voice  of  Isis,  Curtiss,  Chapter  XVII. 

30 


pendence  of  each  nation  or  people  will  be 
guaranteed — as  brothers,  some  older,  some 
younger,  in  the  great  social  family — and  thus 
will  prevent  war  for  a  long  period  and  enter 
the  new  era  with  a  clean  slate  as  it  were,  but 
the  war  is  developing  in  the  Race  as  a  whole, 
an  enormous  amount  of  the  feminine  quali- 
ties— love,  compassion,  sympathy,  devotion, 
unselfishness  and  service — so  necessary  as  the 
Race  enters  the  Aquarian  or  Woman's  Age, 
the  sign  of  the  Son  of  Man  in  the  heavens. 

Among  the  contending  nations  the  Eng- 
lish, French  and  Germans  have  reached  the 
zenith  of  their  cycles  as  nations  and  hence 
must  be  tested  ere  they  can  enter  the  new 
cycle.  They  are  classed  among  the  nations 
which  represent  the  highest  stage  of  civil- 
ization, culture,  intellectual  and  material  ad- 
vance on  the  planet  today,  but  they  must  now 
prove  the  truth  of  their  proud  boasts;  must 
prove  whether  their  civilization  and  culture 
is  the  result  of  true  spiritual  growth  or 
whether  it  is  the  mere  veneer  of  intellectual 
and  material  attainment  without  correspond- 
ing spiritual  unfoldment.  Has  their  so- 
called  advance  in  civilization  brought  their 
people  into  a  greater  realization  of  the  spir- 
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ituat  basis  of  all  manifestation?  Has  it  led 
them  to  strive  for  a  more  conscious  commun- 
ion with  the  realms  of  spiritual  consciousness 
as  a  daily  personal  experience?  Has  it 
taught  them  the  folly  of  seeking  to  satisfy 
the  ceaseless  craving  of  the  Soul  for  union 
with  its  Source,  through  the  gratification  of 
the  senses  or  the  possession  of  material 
things?  Has  their  scientific  study  of  the 
wonderful  co-operation  and  brotherhood  ex- 
isting among  the  cells,  tissues  and  organs  of 
every  unit  of  organic  life  led  them — if  for 
no  other  reason,  as  a  matter  of  efficiency — to 
follow  the  same  law  and  express  greater  tol- 
erance, co-operation  and  brotherhood  among 
themselves  as  members  of  the  body  of  hu- 
manity? Have  their  studies  led  them  to 
recognize  the  true  position  of  woman  as  the 
Priestess  of  the  household,  to  complement 
and  co-worker  with  man;  the  spiritual  head 
of  the  family,  as  man  is  the  material;  the 
inspirer  and  leader  in  all  spiritual,  ethical 
and  moral  problems?  In  time  of  emergency, 
stress  and  strain,  when  there  is  scarcely  time 
for  thought,  will  the  culture  of  these  nations 
enable  them  instinctively  to  display  more 
love,  compassion,  self-sacrifice  and  human- 

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ity,  simply  because  man  is  man,  than  the  less 
cultured  nations  would  under  similar  condi- 
tions?  Or  will  they  relapse  to  the  level  of 
the  uncultured  animal  man  who  fights  solely 
for  self?  This  is  the  test  which  their  civil- 
ization must  stand.  And  those  nations 
which  show  most  conclusively  that  these  high- 
er qualities  have  been  built  into  their  national 
consciousness  must  be  the  ones  to  dominate 
and  manifest  these  qualities  more  perfectly 
in  the  world's  arena  during  the  coming  cycle 
of  the  new  age.  The  Slavonic  nations,  on  the 
other  hand,  have  not  reached  the  zenith  of 
their  evolution,  but  are  on  the  upward  arc. 
Hence  the  more  primitive  qualities  of  their 
civilization  may  be  used  by  the  Great  Law 
as  instruments  with  which  to  accomplish  the 
testing  of  the  more  advanced,  and  to  make 
possible  the  inauguration  of  the  new  era. 

When  the  physical  conflict  is  over  a  ter- 
rible mental  revolt  against  all  forms  of  re- 
straint, both  in  government  and  religion,  will 
burst  forth.  It  will  be  a  period  of  extremes, 
extremes  of  individualism;  a  period  when  the 
opposition  against  all  systematized  or  organ- 
ized spiritual  teachings,  which  is  even  now 
manifesting  under  various  doctrines  of  relig- 
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ious  and  so-called  "soul  freedom,"  will  find 
extreme  expression.  It  will  be  a  period  both 
of  extreme  agnosticism  and  extreme  individ- 
ualistic teaching,  when  any  fantastic  theory, 
even  without  a  rational  or  philosophic  basis, 
will  find  a  hearing  and  followers.  At  the 
same  time  there  will  be  a  strong  feeling  upon 
the  part  of  those  who  cling  to  the  old  con- 
ceptions that  it  is  their  duty  to  humanity  to 
enforce  the  old  religious  ideals.  Hence  all 
churches,  orders,  movements  and  societies 
professing  a  spiritual  basis  will  on  the  one 
hand  have  radicals  whose  extremes  will  bring 
them  into  disrepute,  while  on  the  other  hand 
they  will  have  those  who  will  laugh  at,  rid- 
icule, discredit,  oppose  and  persecute  them. 
And  the  same  fire  that  has  manifested  as 
physical  war  will  again  sweep  the  world  as  a 
mental,  spiritual  and  psychic  conflict.  It  will 
be  a  time  when  all  spiritual  movements  will 
be  under  a  cloud,  when  spiritually  uThe 
brother  shall  betray  the  brother  to  death, 
and  the  father  the  son:  and  children  shall 
rise  against  their  parents,  and  shall  cause 
them  to  be  put  to  death."  Therefore  it  will 
be  a  period  of  great  testing;  a  period  when 
every  heart  who  has  realized  the  reality  of 
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the  spiritual  world  and  its  forces  must  be 
securely  grounded  in  the  philosophy,  stand 
firmly  and  unshakably  for  his  or  her  beliefs, 
even  though  to  do  so  involves  ridicule,  perse- 
cution and  mental  suffering.  For  every  sys- 
tem of  teaching  not  founded  upon  the  rock 
of  divine  reality  and  expressed  in  terms  suit- 
able to  the  new  conditions  must  pass  away 
to  make  room  for  the  new. 

These  conditions  will  be  so  terrible  that 
they  will  last  only  a  very  few  years,  perhaps 
only  two  or  three,  for  we  are  told  that  "for 
the  elect's  sake  those  days  shall  be  shortened. 
.  .  .  And  except  those  days  should  be 
shortened,  there  should  be  no  flesh  saved." 
The  only  way  that  the  "elect"  can  prove 
themselves  is  by  their  sincerity,  their  stead- 
fastness, their  trust  and  their  determination 
to  hold  calmly  to  their  spiritual  ideals  and  to 
rely  absolutely  upon  their  divine,  inner  guid- 
ance. Words  and  arguments  will  be  of  no 
avail.  The  truth  of  their  beliefs  can  be 
proved  only  by  living  them.  All  such  will  be 
like  bright  and  shining  lights  in  this  period  of 
mental  and  spiritual  darkness,  or  more  cor- 
rectly, blindness.  It  will  be  at  the  close  of 
this  period  that  the  long  expected  Great 
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Teacher,  the  Avatar,  will  appear  to  reassure 
distracted  humanity  of  the  spiritual  basis  of 
all  manifestation  and  to  outline  a  new  and 
higher  conception  of  the  spiritual  life  and  its 
forms  of  expression. 

The  battles  of  the  physical  world  are 
fought  on  the  physical-plane  with  physical 
weapons,  but  the  battle  of  Armageddon  must 
j3e  fought  first  upon  the  astral-plane  with 
thoughts  and  psychic  forces  for  weapons,  the 
conflict  now  raging  being  but  a  pouring  out 
of  the  evil  and  a  gathering  together  of  the 
forces  of  Good  for  the  final  battle  on  the 
higher  planes.  This  battle  has  already  be- 
gun, and  it  will  continue  throughout  the  sixth 
sub-race  of  this  Aryan  Great  Race.  Its  prog- 
ress will  be  marked  by  tremendous  disasters 
precipitated  upon  the  physical-plane — wars, 
earthquakes,  cyclones,  volcanic  eruptions  and 
meteoric  showers,  floods,  etc. — of  more  or 
less  severity  until  the  final  battle  and  catacl- 
ysm in  which  the  battlefield  and  the  defeated 
army  will  be  swallowed  up  and  a  new  and 
purified  land  (the  old  Lemurian  continent  in 
the  Pacific)  shall  rise  out  of  the  waters  for 
the  new  Sixth  Great  Race  to  inhabit. 
The  victors  will  remain  as  the  seed  of 
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the  new  race  to  people  the  new  land.  Just 
as  these  changes  must  take  place  for  the 
planet,  so  must  they  take  place  in  humanity 
through  bloody  wars,  strikes  and  other  con- 
flicts which  will  continue  until  all  conflicts  of 
man  with  man,  and  man's  resistance  to  the 
Divine  are  swallowed  up,  and  out  of  the 
waters  of  affliction  there  shall  arise  a  new 
and  greater  humanity  with  true  Brotherhood, 
Love,  Peace  and  Harmony  as  its  watchword. 
The  time  has  now  come  when  the  accumul- 
ated mass  of  old  Race  Karma  must  be  defi- 
nitely met  and  conquered  ere  humanity  can 
enter  upon  the  new  sub-race,  its  next  step  in 
evolution.  This,  in  a  measure,  is  to  the 
world  what  the  Dweller  on  the  Threshold  is 
to  the  neophyte.  And  as  with  the  neophyte 
before  each  important  step  is  taken,  it  must 
be  met  and  conquered.  For  just  as  the  neo- 
phyte, through  his  evil  thoughts,  words  and 
acts,  has  created  an  entitized  form  of  evil — 
his  indiviual  Dweller5 — so  the  planet  has 
been  pouring  out  its  evils  throughout  its  long 
cycle  until  they  have  become  entitized  as  a 
udark  planet"  with  a  living  Ruler,  the  Anti- 
Christ.  This  planet  may  be  called  the  Dwel- 

5See  The  Voice  of  Isis,  Curtiss,  p.  64. 
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ler   on   the   Threshold   for   humanity   as    a 
whole. 

The  astronomers  of  Harvard  University 
Confirm*  have  already  discovered  the  influence  of  this 
dark  planet — the  Destroyer — which,  if  en- 
countered, means  the  destruction  of  the 
earth.  Astronomer  Serviss  is  quoted  as  say- 
ing that  the  earth  and  this  whole  solar  system 
has  gone  astray  and  is  trailing  off  away  from 
its  path  around  the  great  sun  Alcyone  in  the 
Pleiades,  toward  the  constellation  Andro- 
meda in  the  Milky  Way.  These  are  but  as- 
tronomical confirmations  of  the  fact  that  we 
have  entered  the  sixth  sub-race,  and  that  the 
hosts  are  rapidly  gathering  for  the  great  Bat- 
tle of  Armageddon.  The  earth  is  being 
driven  through  space  in  this  new  direction  by 
the  character  of  the  thought-force  of  its  col- 
lective humanity.  But  there  is  another  planet, 
not  yet  recognized  by  science,  which  is  a 
bright  planet — the  Redeemer — to  be  drawn 
into  whose  aura  means  salvation.  These  two 
planets  may  be  called  the  camping  grounds 
of  the  opposing  forces,  with  the  earth  be- 
tween as  the  battle  ground.  But  back  of  and 
within  the  outer  cause,  as  the  propelling 
power,  will  be  the  preponderating  force  of 
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good  or  evil  thoughts  engendered  by  human- 
ity. Therefore  the  real  battle  is  to  be  fought 
on  the  mental  and  astral-planes  with  thoughts 
and  psychic  forces,  good  and  bad,  as  weap- 
ons, and  later  will  be  reflected  and  precipi- 
tated on  and  in  the  earth.  Hence  all  ad- 
vanced students,  who  consciously  determine 
to  make  Love,  Brotherhood,  Purity  and 
Peace  their  standards  of  life,  enroll  them- 
selves among  the  Hosts  of  the  Lord  and  be- 
come Soldiers  of  the  Cross. 

The  Dragon  symbolizes  the  synthesis  of 
the  world's  perverted  thoughts  of  sex  and  is 
commonly  called  the  Devil.  The  three  un- 
clean spirits  like  frogs  which  come  from  his 
mouth  symbolize  the  three  great  expressions 
of  the  dragon-force,  i.e.,  (a)  sex  impurity, 
suppression  and  perversion;  (b)  the  creation 
of  disease  by  such  perversion,  and  (c)  insan- 
ity or  psychic  obsession  resulting  from  astral 
entities — -or  individual  Dwellers  on  the  Thres- 
hold— utilizing  sensitive  but  negative  victims 
through  which  they  can  satisfy  their  desires. 
The  Beast  is  a  symbol  of  Mammon  or  greed, 
expressing  through  the  Money  Power.  The 
three  evil  spirits  issuing  from  his  mouth  com- 
prise all  the  miseries  and  sorrows  that  arise 
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as  a  result  of  greed  and  injustice  in  their 
threefold  expressions  of  (a)  war,  prosecuted 
for  territorial  or  commercial  expansion,  stim- 
ulated and  financed  by  the  Money  Power; 
(b)  poverty,  resulting  from  the  unjust  distri- 
bution of  wealth,  which  distribution  is  con- 
trolled by  the  Money  Power;  and  (c)  all  the 
train  of  evils  resulting  from  bodily  and  indus- 
trial slavery.  The  False  Prophet  symbolizes 
all  the  false  teachings  which  have  been  given 
out  in  the  name  of  religion  or  spiritual  teach- 
ing to  justify  and  uphold  both  the  Dragon 
and  the  Beast,  but  which  have  misled  human- 
ity and  held  it  back  from  manifesting 
Peace,  Love  and  Brotherhood.  From  his 
mouth  come  forth  the  three  frogs  of  (a) 
materialized  religion,  priestcraft  and  tem- 
poral power;  (b)  spiritual  pride;  and  (c)  in- 
tolerance and  its  handmaiden,  religious  per- 
secution. This  pride,  intolerance  and  perse- 
cution did  not  die  out  with  the  Inquisition, 
but  is  still  active  today.  It  is  now  directed 
not  so  much  against  the  physical  bodies  of 
its  victims,  but  is  carried  on  mentally  and 
psychicly  through  the  slanders,  scandal  and 
malicious  misrepresentation  carried  on 
through  various  publications  and  commonly 
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called  ubrutal  journalism/'  All  these  fac- 
tors, as  the  passage  quoted  plainly  tells  us, 
work  for  the  King  of  this  World,  King  De- 
sire and  his  allies  and  their  cohorts. 

One  of  the  first  rules  impressed  upon  the 
spiritual  aspirant  is  that  to  attain  at-one-ment  «fc 
by  the  path  of  Love  and  Purity  he  must  lay  F 
down  all  carnal  weapons.  Jesus  emphasized 
this  rule  when  He  said  to  Peter:  "Put  up 
again  thy  sword  into  his  place:  for  all  they 
that  take  the  sword  shall  perish  with  the 
sword."6  Yet  we  find  the  disciple  spoken  of 
as  a  Soldier  of  the  Cross  and  commanded  to 
array  himself  as  a  fighting  factor  in  the 
world's  salvation.  Jesus  also  said:  "I  came 
not  to  send  peace,  but  a  sword."7  Behind  this 
paradox  lies  a  great  truth,  the  understanding 
of  which  is  necessary  ere  any  decided  con- 
scious advance  in  the  spiritual  unfoldment  of 
either  the  individual  or  the  Race  can  take 
place,  i.e.,  the  conquering  must  take  place  on 
the  plane  where  the  causes  are  engendered, 
and  the  weapons  are  Love  and  Purity.  This 
means  that  thoughts  of  Love  and  Purity  must 
be  sent  out  in  such  numbers  and  with  such 
positive  spiritual  force  that  they  will  sur- 

*Matth.  XXVI,  52. 
7Matth.  X,  34. 

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round  and  transmute  the  impure  and  antag- 
Howtc  onistic  forces,  following  the  same  tactics  as 
the  white  warrior  cells  (phagocytes)  of  the 
blood  use  in  meeting  an  invasion  of  disease 
germs,  i.e.,  not  deny  the  evil,  but  surround 
and  transmute  the  evil  into  Good.  The  Voice 
of  the  Silence  tells  us:  uStrive  with  thy 
thoughts  unclean  before  they  overpower 
thee.  Use  them  as  they  will  thee,  for  if  thou 
sparest  them  and  they  take  root  and  grow, 
know  well  these  thoughts  will  overpower  and 
kill  thee.1'8  If  you  find  them  persistently 
clinging  to  you,  send  out  an  army  of  pure  and 
loving  thoughts  to  absorb  and  transmute 
them.  Science  recognizes  the  fact  that,  dur- 
ing epidemics  of  disease,  the  mere  thinking 
and  talking  about  the  disease  will  make  nega- 
tive persons  more  susceptible  to  it.  This 
does  not  mean  that  all  disease  is  merely  men- 
tal, but  that  by  negative  thoughts  you  open 
a  door  in  your  aura  through  which  the  dis- 
ease can  enter.  This  effect  is  still  more  evi- 
dent in  moral  epidemics  and  in  the  epidemics 
of  war-thoughts  which  sweep  over  nations. 
Therefore  the  spiritual  aspirant  should  lay 
down  all  carnal  weapons  or  he  will  surely 


8Blavatskyf  p.  12. 

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perish  by  the  sword,  overcome  by  the  hosts 
of  evil  thought-forms  he  has  drawn  into  his 
aura. 

Applied  to  warring  nations  this  principle 
indicates  that  we  should  not  waste  time  and 
force  in  specifically  directing  our  prayers  and 
thought  forces  to  the  European  nations  that 
they  shall  cease  fighting,  for  they  are  acting 
under  the  tremendous  urge  of  long  pent-up 
karmic  readjustment  which  must  take  place, 
and  cannot  respond  to  our  prayers  until  after 
that  karmic  readjustment  has  been  worked 
out.  There  is  only  one  efficacious  way  to 
pray  for  peace  and  that  is  to  pray  that  the 
Will  of  the  Father  shall  be  done  on  earth, 
even  as  it  is  in  heaven.  That  Divine  Will  is 
Love,  first,  last  and  all  the  time.  And  having 
prayed  thus  believe  and  know  that  this 
Divine  Love  is  back  of  the  entire  world  of 
manifestation,  and  that  it  is  ever  working  to 
bring  about  the  reign  of  universal  Love, 
Peace  and  Harmony,  even  though  it  be  nec- 
essary to  sweep  from  its  path  all  that  opposes 
that  reign.  The  terrible  conditions  which  pre- 
vail today  are  not  the  Will  of  the  Father,  but 
are  the  creations  of  man;  the  result  of  his 
resistance  and  opposition  to  the  Divine  Will; 
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creati°ns  °f  unbrotherliness,  selfishness 
and  greed,  not  altogether  on  the  part  of 
those  instrumental  in  precipitating  or  now 
participating  in  the  present  conflict,  but  the 
accumulation  of  selfishness  and  greed  of  the 
Race,  all  of  which  must  come  up  for  adjust- 
ment now  at  the  close  of  the  cycle  of  the  fifth 
sub-race  or  the  end  of  the  old  dispensation, 
just  as  the  rash  must  come  out  in  measles, 
scarlet  fever,  etc.,  ere  the  real  healing  can 
begin.  Therefore  while  you  pray  for  the 
greater  Peace,  know  that  that  Peace  must 
first  come  in  the  hearts  of  the  people  of  all 
the  nations  involved  and  of  the  whole  world. 
Try  not  to  think  of  individuals  except  in 
compassion,  knowing  that  the  Great  Law  will 
adjust  their  conditions  in  its  own  good  time. 
Those  who  are  dying  for  their  ideals,  even 
though  those  ideals  be  but  of  local  patriot- 
ism and  loyalty  to  an  earthly  ruler,  are  in  a 
measure  redeemers  for  the  Race;  for  they 
are  dying  that  the  Race  may  be  purged  from 
the  war-thought,  the  war-ideal  and  the  curse 
of  militarism.  Hence  in  the  next  incarnation 
they  will  receive  the  just  reward  for  their 
sacrifice.  By  their  suffering  and  dying  they 
have  brought  the  world  to  a  greater  realiza- 
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tion  of  the  utter  folly  and  needlessness  of 
war  if  the  Divine  Will  were  followed.  By  j 
their  sacrifice  they  have  wiped  out  much  of  ^on 
the  individual  and  racial  Karma  and  will 
receive  their  compensation  by  being  enabled 
to  incarnate  the  next  time  under  far  more  ad- 
vanced conditions  of  civilization  than  they 
could  have  experienced  had  they  remained  a 
few  years  longer  in  the  present  life.  Send 
your  forces  of  Love,  Peace  and  Brotherhood 
into  the  higher  realms  where  they  will  aggre- 
gate into  a  mighty  force  which  shall  swallow 
up  all  future  thoughts  of  national  selfishness 
and  aggrandizement  and  be  a  powerful  fac- 
tor in  forming  a  federation  of  European  na- 
tions on  the  grounds  of  common  humanity 
and  brotherhood  which  shall  make  it  impos- 
sible for  the  ambitions  or  passions  of  a  few 
to  plunge  nations  into  bloody  and  need- 
less conflicts,  and  which  shall  be  an  important 
factor  in  preparing  for  the  coming  of  the 
Avatar. 

All  persons  who  are  sensitive  have  real- 
ized for  some  time  that  there  is  a  terrible 
commotion  in  the  mental  and  astral  worlds 
which  is  now  intensified  by  the  physical  con- 
flict going  on  in  Europe  and  also  by  the 
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thousands  of  Souls  suddenly  thrown  out  of 
incarnation  carrying  with  them  all  the  excite- 
ment,  antagonism  and  hatred  which  animated 
them  as  they  fought.  This  composite  force 
is  like  a  tension  or  steady  pressure  upon  all 
humanity  tending  to  make  all  persons  more 
irritable  and  excited.  Therefore  it  is  the 
duty  of  every  advanced  student  to  take  spe- 
cial pains  to  see  that  he  does  not  make  an 
opening  in  his  aura  through  which  such 
forces  can  manifest  by  giving  way  to  impa- 
tience, irritation  and  emotion  or  to  partisan- 
ship and  race  antagonism.  Instead  he  should 
consciously  strive  to  make  himself  a  center 
from  and  through  which  the  constructive 
forces  of  Peace,  Harmony,  Love  and  Broth- 
erhood can  radiate  in  his  family  and  imme- 
diate environment  and  on  out  into  all  the 
world. 

Arrayed  against  the  hosts  of  evil  stand  the 
thought-creations  of  Love,  Harmony  and 
Purity  and  upliftrnent  of  the  Race  sent  out  in 
a  steady  stream  by  the  Lodge  of  Masters  and 
by  all  Great  Teachers  since  the  world  began, 
as  well  as  by  all  who  have  been  able  to  think 
vitalized  thoughts  of  Love  and  Purity,  Har- 
mony and  Brotherhood.  All  humanity  have 
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added  and  are  still  adding  their  quota  to  one 
side  or  the  other.  It  is  the  destiny  of  the 
fifth  sub-race  to  see  the  beginning  of  this 
great  and  decisive  battle  between  Good  and 
evil  or,  to  be  more  explicit,  between  Purity 
and  impurity.  Hence  it  is  time  that  all  who 
desire  the  salvation  of  the  Race  and  the 
planet  should  awaken  to  the  grave  conditions 
we  have  outlined  herein,  and  determinately 
array  themselves  on  the  side  of  Good  by 
sending  their  individual,  pure  and  vital  love- 
force  to  swell  the  Hosts  of  the  Lord.  For 
you  cannot  say  a  loving  word  or  do  a  loving 
deed,  even  to  an  animal,  without  having  a 
loving  thought  behind  it.  And  every  loving 
and  peaceful  thought  adds  strength  to  the 
Army  of  the  Good.  As  the  Christ  says:  "In 
as  much  as  ye  have  done  it  unto  one  of  the 
least  of  these  my  brethren,  ye  have  done  it 
unto  me." 

The  pure  Hosts  of  the  Lord  are  mustered 
in  serried  ranks  according  to  natural  law  and 
order,  while  the  forces  of  evil,  being  a  per- 
version of  nature  and  abnormal,  are  not  or- 
ganized. A  well  known  principle  of  warfare 
is  that  a  small  but  well  organized  army  can 
overcome  a  much  larger  force  that  is  unor- 
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ganized.  And  as  evil  and  impure  forces  are 
sent  out  by  haphazard  impulse  they  may  be 
compared  to  an  unorganized  mob,  while 
thoughts  of  Good,  because  they  require  will 
and  effort,  are  consciously  created,  and  can 
be  gathered  together  by  the  Masters  and 
formed  into  a  well  drilled,  well  disciplined 
and  well  officered  army,  always  in  good  fight- 
ing condition.  Good  is  stronger  than  evil  be- 
cause it  is  constructive  and  works  in  harmony 
with  the  Great  Law. 

The  Masters  of  the  Great  White  Lodge, 
altho  small  in  numbers  as  compared  with  the 
multitudes  of  humanity,  are,  nevertheless, 
able  to  engender  and  consciously  use  a  far 
greater  degree  of  creative  force  on  the  side 
of  Purity,  Peace,  Love  and  Brotherhood. 
But  even  They  must  work  with  the  Law  as 
Karma  and  may  not  forcibly  prevent  a  Race 
or  sub-race  from  experiencing  its  karmic  ret- 
ribution and  readjustment.  But  Their  ef- 
forts, being  consciously  directed  and  wisely 
applied,  weigh  heavily  in  the  scale.  They  do 
not  act  on  the  physical-plane  however,  except 
through  Their  disciples  and  those  who  re- 
spond to  Their  inspiring  currents  of  force. 
Hence  Their  great  need  today  of  those  who 
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will  consciously  make  themselves  centers  of 
Peace,  Purity,  Harmony  and  Love  and  be  ^ecom 
more  or  less  conscious  instruments  through  a 
which  They  can  work.  They  are  the  di-  Helfier 
recting  force,  comparable  to  the  officers  of 
an  army,  but  the  disciples  must  consciously 
become  willing  volunteers  who  shall  compose 
the  great  body  of  fighting  units  which  the 
Masters  shall  train  and  direct.  Therefore, 
instead  of  devoting  all  your  efforts  toward 
unfolding  your  faculties  and  developing  your 
personality,  set  to  work  earnestly  and  con- 
sciously create  warriors  for  the  Army  of  the 
Lord  to  the  end  that  not  only  the  Race  but 
the  planet  itself,  shall  be  saved  from  destruc- 
tion. 

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